Zigbert. Sorry to hear your struggle with graphics. You seem to have AMD proprietary driver in use in Slacko.

There are 2 ready AMD drivers to test in Precise. Versions 12.6 and 12.8. I dont know which one is for you. Use for example quickset from the Pinboard or PPM. I think they are in Precise Puppy repo also.

If you can get the X work enough to do that. Like fresh install pfix=ram.

I've re-written Barry kauler's report-video to make it a GUI and
localised it. It might be useful to you now??? You might prefer
Tazoc's version but it isn't localised.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=83696
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Posted: Sat 12 Jan 2013, 20:22 Post_subject:
Not sure if it is an upgrade bug or a feature, but ...

Not urgent at all, just reporting it.

I had a hard drive frugal install of of 54x6. I have it set in grub so that it is in pupmode 13 (as if it was a USB drive) and I have pupsaveconfig (the latest version that ends in 5) set to not save automatically, but to ask when you exit (0+ in the menu). All was working fine.

I upgraded it by copying the contents of the 54x7 ISO into the correct directory

The possible bug is that it wiped out all the changes I made to my desktop, including links I had added to folders and .desktop files in the /usr/shared/applications directory and the wallpaper I had set. It also readded some of the out of the box links I had deleted. Pupsaveconfig no longer works but uninstalling and reinstalling seems to have fixed it.

Anyway, not really a big deal and I am not really sure if it is supposed to act that way or if it is a bug.

Prior to Christmas I purchased a new desktop AMD FX6100 with Radeon 7450 ! GB graphics card. I could not get any distro to work on the correct resolution of my monitor 1920 x 1080. All the puppy's I have tried so far, would not allow me to go above 1280 x 1024. I have downloaded and tried 3 versions of the AMD driver with no luck.

I just did a frugal install of this upup precise 5.4.X.7 and it picked up the 1920 x 1080 by default.

Everything is working great. Thanks for all your work on your derivatives.

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OOPS... and I worked so hard on this bug report !

As it were, it was just "cobwebs"... first day of testing,
and the apps not initializing yet ? Anyway, printing in
54x7 /IS/ working as expected. My apologies to
anyone who read original post before I correct it now.
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Im enjoying playing with the ubuntu style apps provided in
upup-precise... there are several ready to go in repos which
other distros dont have.

thanks as usual for all the hard work you've put into these
distros Pemasu !

Not sure if it's been mentioned before, it's just my system, or maybe just me.

Puppy is in a folder on sda2. I also have a second sata drive recognized as sdb. Puppy recongizes, and creates desktop drive-icons for, 9 partitions among those hard drives. If I start 54X7 with a USB-Key plugged in, or later plug it in, it creates a desktop drive-icon for it. But it places that icon on top of the drive-icon for sda2, rather than at the end of the row of drive-icons.